Ironing-board



(No Model.)

T. E. KING & W. H. SAXTON.

IRONING BOARD. No. 253,295.' I Patented Feb.- 7,1882

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE E. KING, OF SAUGATUCK, AND WILLIAM H. SAXTON, OF WEST- PORT, CONNECTICUT.

lRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,295, dated February 7, 1882. Application tiled June 22, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom tt man] concern:

Be it known that we, THEODORE E. KING, of Saugatuck, and WILLIAM H. SAXTON, of Westport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereofiwhereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

Our invention relates to what are known as ironing-boards, and intended to be used for ironing shirt-bosoms and other similar articles which require to bestretched upon a flat surface for that purpose.

The object of our invention is to provide a better construction for the clip which holds the garment at the end of the board.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating our invention, Figure 1 is a top view of the end of our improved ironing-board. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same with the end clip raised.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the middle of the board, with the clip turned down so as to be in line with the surface of the board.

A is the body of the ironing-board. Itisintended to be of the customary dimensions and constructed in the usual manner, with asomewhat soft and yielding top surface.

B is the cross-bar or clip at the end. This 5 raises up for the insertion of the article to be ironed between it and the end of the board, and then turns down, so as to clamp it firmly in place and hold it smooth. This clip has to be so constructed as to yield when a garment is inserted and adapt itself to hold articles of different thicknesses. Several devices have been used for this purpose, all of which are more or less objectionable.

C is .a metallic spring-wire, which passes through the bar B and is bent at the corner 5 C, so as to be parallel to the sides of the board and form the arms upon which the clip turns.

D D are the hinges, formed by a pin or screw passing through suitable holes in the ends of the wire C and entering the sides of the board.

The spring device, in which our improvement chiefiycousists, is constructed as follows:

A channel of about the width of the thickness of the wire 0 is out in the outer edge of the bar B of varying depth from the middle to the ends, as shown in Fig. 3, being deepest at the ends. The shape of the bottom of this groove is shown at B in Fig. 3. The wire passing through the bar B rests upon the middle of the bar at the bottom of the groove, and the part toward the ends is free to bend when the clipbar is pressed outward. The wire thus forms a spring which yields to all required positions of the bar B. After the wire C is placed in the groove in the bar B the edge of the groove is 6 I filled with a narrow strip, E, which is glued in and secures the wire in place, so that the bar cannot be removed from the wire when the board is in use. The ends of the clip-bar B are also grooved, so that the wire C lies within its thickness, which serves to hold the bar from turning and supports its inner edge, which binds the article held against the edge of the board A.

What we claim as our invention is- In an ironing-board, the spring-clip composed of the bar B, having a groove, B, deeper at the ends than at the middle, and the wire C, hinged at the sides, whereby the wire acts as a spring where it passes -through B, substantially as described.

THEODORE E. KING. WILLIAM H. SAXTON. Witnesses:

CARRIE E. NASH, ELIZABETH NASH. 

